A study was conducted to identify characteristics considered important by personnel directors when reviewing resumes. Findings were obtained from questionnaires completed by 166 respondents located throughout the Midwest. Results suggest that there are very definite opinions held by individuals whose function is frequently to review resumes. A…

Examined attitudinal shifts during prolonged job search. White-collar and blue-collar workers (N=347) completed questionnaires at the beginning, middle, and final stages of their job searches. Results showed deterioration of self-esteem, difficulty dealing with others, and inclinations to be more realistic the longer the job search continued. (BH)

Reported on a work placement program that incorporated intensive job-seeking skills training, components of Job Club programs, and other behavioral procedures designed to encourage independent job finding by psychiatric patients (N=97). Of clients who participated in the program, 66 percent entered some meaningful vocational activity. (BH)

Analyzes the methods of job information acquisition used by recent Korean immigrants. Indicates the Koreans most frequently use personal contact with other Koreans. Reviews findings from the perspective of labor market segmentation. (Author/MK)

This study of 299 social and physical scientists at universities reveals that strong personal contacts were more useful than reliance on weak ties (acquaintances) for job information. Using personal connections for employment information is thus an efficient job seeking method. (SK)

Canadian Displaced Workers Survey data indicate that group advance-notice laws, which apply to large-scale layoffs, reduced the length of displaced workers' joblessness. Individual notice laws had little effect, perhaps because laid-off workers whose plants remain open may expect to be rehired and therefore delay job search. (SK)

British survey data support the hypothesis that some studies showing job seekers using public employment agencies (PEAs) have longer unemployment spells may be flawed because they ignore the possibility that PEAs are used only after other search methods fail. Variations in the timing of PEA use should be taken into account in research. (SK)

In a sample of 503 dual-income relocated couples (employee and accompanying spouse) in the United States and Canada, sex of accompanying spouses and their job-seeking self-efficacy were the primary determinants of their need for employment assistance following relocation. (SK)

Analysis of 1979-81 data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (2,165 subjects) confirms the hypothesis that workers who quit and become unemployed experience larger wage gains when reemployed than those who move directly to another job. Unemployed movers apparently receive wage gains to compensate for higher job search and mobility…

A sequential-regimes job search model tested the effect of advanced notice on the duration of joblessness. Maximum likelihood estimates using data from the 1984 and 1986 Dislocated Worker Surveys demonstrated that advance knowledge significantly shortened joblessness for most labor force groups. (SK)

Conducted descriptive study to investigate factors that help and hinder members of job-search groups and the impact of these groups on the experience of unemployment. Persons who had taken part in job-search groups reported 501 helping and 44 hindering incidents. Analyses resulted in the grouping of incidents into 19 helping and 10 hindering…

Analyzed responses from 651 employers to question: What is major reason why mature unemployed so often have difficult finding work? Five major barriers that limited reemployment opportunities of older job seekers were identified. Older job hunter was perceived as unqualified; more expensive to employ; difficult to integrate into corporation;…

Responses from 62 of 95 students with disabilities and 323 of 683 other college students showed the majority of both groups knew little about the cooperative education program; about 50% of both intended to do an internship; students with disabilities were more likely to use co-op services; and both groups had used similar sources for getting a…

Survey given to college seniors determined that most are unfocused and unsure about their career plans. More than half plan to continue their education within the next five years. Many indicated no preference regarding company size but appear to be placing more restrictions on the location of their first job. Concludes that survey provides…

People enter or leave the labor force in response to a myriad of changing personal or economic conditions. Their decisions often do not seem to be closely linked to their stated desire or availability for work a year earlier. (Author)